World Development Indicators 2017

This resource book, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), provides insight into how an economic argument can be made to invest in social determinants of health. The strong links between socioeconomic factors or policies and health are well documented. Yet even when health and health equity are seen as important markers of development, expressing the benefits of social determinants of health interventions in health and health equity terms alone is not always sufficiently persuasive…

This Lancet Series examines pathways toward optimizing child and adolescent health and development worldwide. This series follows nearly two decades after the original Lancet Series on child survival was published and finds that progress toward child and adolescent health has been too slow - with the world off track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for child health. The papers emphasize supporting the health and development of children from preconception through adulthood and discuss…

This report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provides data on global internal displacement, specifically focusing on how it affects the lives and health of children and their families. UNICEF reports that at the end of 2019, 46 million people – 19 million of which were children – were internally displaced by conflict and violence. Children are the most vulnerable, as they are threatened by abuse, violence, and exploitation as families are separated,…